Posted on 07/12/2014 7:05:56 AM PDT by george76
In what may come as a surprise to residents of Colorado Springs and Pueblo, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn’t think those cities have roads.
Bloomberg told Rolling Stone that he was “sorry” about the recalls of two state senators last year over the Democratic state legislature’s gun-control laws, but added that their districts were so “rural” that, “I don’t think there’s roads.”
“In Colorado, we got a law passed. The NRA went after two or three state senators in a part of Colorado where I don’t think there’s roads,” said Bloomberg in the interview published online Wednesday.
“It’s as far rural as you can get,” said Bloomberg. “And, yes, they lost recall elections.
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“Michael Bloomberg is absolutely out of touch with the values of Pueblo,” said state Sen. George Rivera (R-Pueblo). “In Pueblo, we value our Second Amendment rights and we don’t appreciate East Coast elites stereotyping us as some area so remote that we don’t even have roads.”
Rivera was elected to the state Senate in the Sept. 10 recall election that resulted in the ouster of state Sen. Angela Giron (D-Pueblo).
“Pueblo is a proud city composed of proud people from all different walks of life, and, while it might be hard for a New York billionaire to comprehend, we do in fact have roads and running water,” said Rivera in a statement. “I promise the people of Pueblo I will never sit idly by as outsiders insult our outstanding community.”
Bloomberg-funded groups lobbied for the three Colorado gun-control bills, which were passed by the state legislature with no Republican votes and signed into law in March 2013 by Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper.
State Sen. Bernie Herpin (R-Colorado Springs), who replaced Senate President John Morse in the recall, called Bloomberg’s remarks “shameful.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecoloradoobserver.com ...
Seems like the gentleman from New York is an idiot, as well as a fool.
“Bloomberg is showing just how sheltered, arrogant and stupid he is.”
Stupidity and ignorance are understandable, just dumb people. Arrogance of these idiots is what pisses me off more than anything
Colorado Springs is also one of our largest areas of military and Veterans in the nation....and GOPe BloomBurqa insulted all of them
FR needs an agree button
LOL! Now that's funny!
Bloomberg ran a city so backwards, most people didn’t even have cars. And they had such a horse problem his successor had to try to ban them.
And they were afraid of being overrun by ferrets.
Bloomberg sees NYC as the center of the universe, he looks down on the rest of us. Nothing new here.
I’ve always dreamed of owning some oxen.The poor dogs can only pull a small cart.
I'm guessing this arrogant dork doesn't know where hamburger comes from.
They are afraid of being overrun by ferals.See Al Sharpton.
Also one of the richest men in the world, good combination.
Bloomberg can see Colorado from the window of his mansion.
I have an idea for powering a bicycle with a 2-stroke Maytag washing machine motor.
Except for Chicago and Detroit, which by their standards, are civilized outposts in the great wild.
Does that mean that to be civilized, a city has to have a high murder rate and be corrupt to the core?
His community is so urban, I don’t think they have brains.
Yes, all of that. Of course having Democrats in control for 50 years is always a good sign because all they know how to do is tax, spend, and advocate for more gun control to fix their “gun problem.”
[Hint to you big city “progressive” morons: you do not have a “gun problem”; you have a freedom and a crime problem. You have misplaced sympathy for the people doing the crimes when you should be supporting the victims of the criminals. You support the victims by putting the thugs down for The Big Dirt Nap.]
They may not have roads, Mike, but they do have VOTING BOOTHS there.
Oh and let me make a couple of other points. The United States of America would not even exist if it was not for the gun. The American Indians fought basically like Mongols. Horse archers were their main battle weapon. Although their bow did not have the range or accuracy that Mongolian bows had. There is no way Europeans armed with halbards could have beaten the American Indians. The gun formed the United States. And if the United States was not formed, the Germans would have won World War II and every Jew on this planet would be dead right now. Yes, that includes you Bloomberg, you idiot.
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